Brenner v. Manson’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 36 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 399 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably Eldred v. Ashcroft (2003), Bilski v. Kappos (2010)
82 federal appellate · 36 district · 5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Graham v. John Deere Company of Kansas City Calmar Inc · Federal Communications Commission v. Pottsville Broadcasting Co. · Glidden Company v. Zdanok Lurk · United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · Fibreboard Paper Products Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 399 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a patent is not a hunting license. It is not a reward for the search, but compensation for its successful conclusion.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Eldred v. Ashcroft · In re Kirk““Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, * * *»”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Thus, in Application of Wilke, 314 F. 2d 558 , 50 C.C.P.A. (Pat.) 964, the court reversed a Patent Office denial of a process claim, holding that 35 U.S.C. § 112 (1964 ed.) was satisfied even though the specification recited only the manner in which the process was to be used and not any use for the products thereby yielded. See also Application of Adams, 316 F.2d 476 , 50 C.C.P.A. (Pat.) 1185. In Application of Szwarc, 319 F.2d 277 , 50 C.C.P.A. (Pat.) 1571, the court acknowledged that its view of the law respecting utility of chemical processes had changed since Bremner. * * * (Emphasis supplied)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.